Features

List of features that we created for our clients. Bear with us and see detailed list what we can offer in this PHP classified ads script

Listing Features:

user can add title, description, category, phone, email, price, city and custom fields (of selected category) for his listing
title of listing is protected so user do not abuse CAPITAL LETTERS
checkbox option to show user’s email address
requirement that phone or email are filled, so viewers can contact poster of an ad
option to suffix price of listing with different units such as [per bag, per tone, per meter etc]
option for user to mark listing price as negotiable or not negotiable
protects your user’s privacy by displaying phone number and email only after requesting contact details, by clicking show contact details button
option to add, remove and change order of photos
client side resize of large images before upload to reduce upload time and to free the user from resizing images by hand
on single listing page, link to author’s other listings
listing’s views count
copy to clipboard: phone, email, link to listing
admin setting to remove some phrases from title, used to remove repetitive texts like “to sell, selling, for sale etc”
admin has option to allow country specific characters, that prevent abuse of other not allowed characters
shortcut of listing’s custom fields

List of listings: in category, listings of user, last added:

search by keywords
filter by custom fields
featured listings displayed first and highlighted
listing has information about: city, price and date
breadcrumbs with current category
pagination
option to select number of listings per page
link to categories with same depth, to quickly switch to other subcategory
ability to show listings on map, with seamless switch between map and plain textual classified ads list

Classifieds on map

display classifieds on map filling all available space
ability to filter classifieds, by both custom fields and categories
when clicking pin on map, tool tip is displayed with classified ad title and main image linking to full view of single classified
supports large amount of pins on the map with ability to cluster them if many pins are present in same place on the map
full screen mode
option to center map on user location
map of classifieds is using OpenStreetMap as it’s engine

Payments and Monetization

monetization through featuring of listings
account top up, wallet – ability to use account balance to quickly feature listings, useful for clients who promote large volume of listings
admin can set user’s top up balance (wallet balance) without payment via manual payment, which would enable this user to use wallet for featuring ads
before payment, user has ability to preview how featured ad looks, by featuring his listing for 30 minutes as demonstration
PayPal payment gateway
featured packages, have their own name, description and price
featured package can be assigned to categories
featured package has option to set featured days, and additional days of listing expiration
each featuring of listing, rises it to the top, so it incentivises to feature ads more often
option to set different prices for featured packages based on category, with fallback to default options, if category specific featured packages are not set
option to disable payments entirely
option to set payments to live mode, to receive real payments
option to set payments to sandbox mode, to test payments without making real payment
advertisement zones, with option to set different advertisement zone id for for every category, with fallback, default advertisement zone id

Mobile View

all pages implement responsive web design principles and are optimized to be viewed on smartphone
pages use minimal amount of images, which improves mobile experience, especially when using internet on the go
when adding listing from smartphone, option to add images using camera of smartphone
client side reduction of size for large images, to reduce upload size, important when using metered mobile connection
CSS and JS is bundled and compressed

Administration

option to show only listings approved by administrator
option to show listing without admin approval, admin still have list of listings to preview, so he can easily monitor new listings
option to change category using admin’s search functionality, so you are able to quickly move ads between categories, when you want to change structure of categories
option to apply custom field for search results, so for example, you can quickly add custom field to listings, by searching for brand by keyword
option to add subpages
option to set desired subpages as terms and conditions, privacy policy
if classified page is subpage of your main site, you can set link with custom text to main site, it would be displayed in main menu and in breadcrumbs
admin can feature user listing from admin panel
admin can raise, put on top manually any listing
admin can add rejection reason when rejecting listing
in settings, admin can set up page with common rejection reasons, which will be displayed near rejection status to the author of listing, author can refer to it and fix issues in rejected listing
option to upload custom page logo in settings
on Activate page, option to activate or reject multiple listings using selection, especially useful when combined with increasing per page amount to quickly activate many listings
option to set custom per page number in activation and search
admin dashboard with various stats about classified app
admin has option to reject, activate, and remove listing
admin can search listing using keywords and various filters
admin can modify and search users
admin has access to “Police Log”, than can be passed to Police and contains: source IP address, source port, destination IP, destination port, exact time of request, changes of listing content. With option to quickly copy to clipboard. This saves time otherwise required to search through system logs to retrieve relevant data.
on admin listing lists (through gray show more info button) and in edit listing page, admin has access to granular information about listing, which help in administration of the site
detailed list of payments made by users
admin can change user email and password by hand
admin can edit listings of users and remove images
copy custom field options from another custom field, useful for custom field with many options, when it is tiresome to do this manually
ability to quickly add categories and custom field options by using “Save and Add” button while adding new elements
when logged in as admin, and viewing public classified pages, you can enter single listing page and use “Edit listing as Admin” button to modify listing with administrative privileges

User

can top up his account wallet for future payments
can see history of his payments
can run trial of featured listing for 30 minutes as a test before payment
has ability to search by keyword in his listings
user has information about status and expiration date of his listings
can deactivate listings
can activate, deactivated listing
can remove deactivated or expired listing
can extend duration of listing
can edit his listings
can register
can request password reset
can change email and password and confirm change via email
can sign in using Google or Facebook
send message to the author of classified ad
can observe / save for latter listings

SEO related features

page title
suffix for every page title
meta description and keywords
RSS, which Google uses to index pages faster
custom text for category used in URL (slug), which would improve your ranking in Google for words that you use in slug
subpages have slug that is used in URL
single listing page auto generates slug used in URL address with keywords from title, category and custom fields
valid HTML: Check by W3 HTML validator
high page speed score: Google PageSpeed Insights
supports HTTPS

Secondary features

RSS so your users can easily find new ads
Last added page, so users can quickly find newest ads and act on them quickly
GDPR / cookie / privacy policy notice
Protected against attacks. Protected from SQL injection using prepared statements, XSS using escaping and CSRF by the use of tokens
Database queries utilize indexes to achieve best performance
full HTTPS support
ability to report listings

Localization

you can create your own translation for this app, messages are stored in translation files
option to set country, and use country specific phone number formats
option to set currency, to format money value for your country

Settings of PHP Classified Script

Settings allow to set listing, payments, SEO, page title, meta tags and localization settings described in other sections. In addition to that they allow to set:

custom CSS and JS, JS can be added in both head and bottom of page, inserting JS in head is useful for Google Tag Manager
custom footer, footer can include current year
alias for email from field
placeholder for search field with examples of search keywords
reply to email address
default items per page number

Installer

installer do not require manual modification of files during installation
you can set database config and config required to send email messages in installer
ability to fill app with example data: categories, custom fields, listings, subpages. For demo, preview and testing purposes.
installer checks requirements before installation
installer validates file system permissions and suggests changes
installer creates database structures on empty database and bootstraps database with required data
installer creates admin account with selected password

Other

health check validators, that inform of any problems with app, displayed on index of admin page
created using modern, mature and up-to-date Symfony 4 LTS framework
created using widely used frontend framework Bootstrap 4
Works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, IE11, IE10
Have been tested to run on both cPanel and DirectAdmin web hosting panels
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